by Geoffrey Knight
Below I give a script I have devised that I have found to be enormously successful with clients with any problem that requires reframing. Any professional practitioner of hypnotherapy or NLP, on a daily basis, will be reframing emotional and physical presenting problems. Here is something new and exciting. The germ of an idea came from a book entitled “Shining the Light V” by Robert Shapiro who channels a wonderful entity called “Zoosh” (ISBN 1-891842-00-7). That master expert of NLP, Robert Dilts, in his teaching on ‘NLP and Health’ comes half way towards it, but Zoosh provides the real solution! So, I dedicate this to Zoosh.
Let us take a very simple example. Lets assume your client was injured in a bad car accident, and suffered grave emotional trauma as a result. This is the Initial itial Sensitizing Event (ISE) you need to change. Then get your client to visualize changing the event so that the two cars involved just pass each other and no accident occurs. They totally change the ISE themselves and do so on a disassociated basis. The changing by the ‘hands’ is a disassociation by itself. Much more effective than doing the traditional NLP movie theater screen and disassociation event.
Procedure
Regress your client to the Initial Sensitizing Event. (ISE)
Get your client to tell you in detail about the traumatic event or situation that requires change.
Go through that event and get your client to experience the trauma.
“Visualize the scene………[go into as much detail as possible]……as if it was made of clay figures…..figures that you can move around just like dolls or toys………the clay figures are wonderfully made…..you can clearly recognize the faces and features ………..the setting or the room is like a stage in miniature……..the figures are clothed in the clothing that was worn on that day in question…….just imagine that setting……..down to the smallest detail……..[You can add details to the scenario drawn from your knowledge from the previous interview]…….as if all is in miniature…….PAUSE
Now reach into the scene with your hands…….you may even see a huge pair of hands appearing from the sky or from above……hands that finish at the wrist…..hands that are undoubtedly yours……you recognize the palms, and the shape of the fingers and the nails…..even the lines on your palms…..and now your hands are moving…..you are aware that you are controlling your hands……reach in and gently move something…….reach in again…….now you will uncreate what happened on [that occasion]…….you will move those clay figures around in that scenario But you won’t create anything radically new…..you will simply undo whatever it was that caused the trauma…..
Now, change the scene to something which is beneficial to all the participants on the stage……and to yourself in particular……reach in with your hands And move around the clay figures……and the scenario and the background…..make it so that the outcome is to your liking and choice And beneficial to all concerned….”
PAUSE for at least five minutes……
Emerge.
